Atoms and Thorns: Blown-Glass and Steel Sculptures by Graham Caldwell
via Colossal
Tags: abstract, conceptual, monsteresque, nature, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, weird sculptures
Sas + Colin: Colin Christian
Colin Christian makes larger-than-life sculptures of space-girls, aliens, and femme fatale creatures, in a style I dub cyber retro-erotic which takes influence from many different subcultures. Statuesque and cast in fiberglass and silicone, these cartoonishly exaggerated, indomitably perfect figures with piercing, gigantic, pellucid eyes, featuring campy titles such as Adventures on Planet Freud and The Callgirl of Cthulhu, are a sort of oddball mixture of his diverse inspirations, including “old sci-fi movies, pinup girls/supermodels, anime,” and “H. P. Lovecraft.” I find some of his work to be not to my taste, bordering on obscene or downright creepy (not to say disturbing), but these pieces below I do like. Also check out Sas’ art in the previous post.
Tags: alien beauty, bizarre, cartoony, cyber aesthetic, distorted bodies, doll-like, enlarged eyes, erotic, fetish, futuristic, life-sized, lolita-esque, monsteresque, pinup, pop surrealism, realism, retro, sci-fi, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, space girls, strange beauty
Gorgeous and Grotesque: The Art-Dolls of Nita Collins
Nita Collins’ doll-sculptures creep me out and exhilarate me. Disturbing, beautiful, verging on the grotesque, delicately crafted, flawlessly executed, melancholically tender, realistic to the point of being unnerving – adorned with puckered scars, ragged holes in chests, and a panoply of peculiar, unique marks on their flesh that seem to have come straight from Nita’s imagination and heart – the tortured, sweetly exquisite bodies and faces of these dolls are a singular, constant mixture of provocative and moving. They are lovingly scarred, divinely imagined, different from any other dolls I’ve seen. Nita Collins has a unique talent manifest in these gorgeous, poignant art-dolls. Check out her blog here.
Tags: bizarre, dark fairy tales, distorted bodies, dollflesh, dolls, emotive, expressive, hauntingly beautiful, nita collins, realism, scars, sculptures, strange beauty, sweet/melancholy, trauma, virtuoso, visceral
The Stunning Sculpture of Motohiko Odani
Tags: conceptual, installation art, medical braces, realism, sculptures, textured, white
Jessica Harrison’s “Breaking” Series
In this series of ceramic sculptures, artist Jessica Harrison undermines and perverts the kitschy sentimentality of porcelain figurines by “breaking” them, casting a macabre twist on the familiar decorative art form. 19th-century ladies with vacantly blithe expressions hold their own severed, gory-edged head in their lap, gaily dangle their bloody eyeballs above them, and with fleshless, skeletal face recline daintily on a chaise longue. I would love to have these doll-sculptures in my home, they are such clever miniature subversions of prim and happy porcelain figurines, having a dimension of interest that the traditional harmlessly sweet figurines never possess.
Tags: blood, ceramics, conceptual, dolls, evisceration, exposed anatomy, figurines, gory, installation art, macabre, porcelain, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, skeleton, victorian, weird sculptures
Xooang Choi’s “Islets of Aspergers Type VII”
This is amazing.
From artist Xooang Choi’s 2008 Islets of Aspergers Type VII exhibition.
Tags: bizarre, conceptual, distorted bodies, flour-white flesh, installation art, life-sized, photorealism, sculptures, surreal, virtuoso, weird sculptures, xooang choi
Sculpture by Caterina Silenzi
Tags: anatomical-themed, animal skulls, antlers, ceramic, conceptual, installation art, sculptures, weird sculptures
Eye-Love [002]
A self-portrait by Kristamas Klousch
End You by Stephanie Bennett
Tutu #1 by Scott RadkeRelated posts:
Eye-Love [001]Reddened Mouths, White Masks, Hungry Fingers
These are ever-so-creepy installation artworks by Israeli sculptor Ronit Baranga
(via Acidolatte):
Tags: conceptual, installation art, masks, sculptures, surreal horror, teacups
The Invisible People
Jin Young Yu makes these totally unique, incredible full-size (though they look miniature in pictures) sculptures out of transparent PVC. They represent his concept of the “invisible people”: “It was too simple to define them as ‘the alienated people’ or ‘the depressed people.’ Instead, I thought that I, or we, could easily be one of them. My works are about people who…choose to keep a distance from [others], and be invisible, or left alone, unconcerned. Instead of trying to fit into the world, they climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusions. [They] feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face…”
A few other of his pieces that I love:
Rain girls
Mother and childTags: installation art, jin young yu, sculptures, urban alienation
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